Biography
Eugene Lang
Ottawa
Eugene Lang is a co-founder of Canada 2020: Canada’s Progressive Centre. Lang has eighteen years experience at senior levels in the public and private sector, most recently as Vice-President Bluesky Strategy Group. Lang served twelve years in the federal government in senior advisory roles, including; Chief of Staff to two Ministers of National Defence, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State (Finance), Senior Economist, Finance Canada, Senior Policy Advisor (Economic) to the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Policy Advisor to the Solicitor General of Canada.
In 2006-07, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. An award winning and best selling author and commentator, Lang has co-written two books on Canadian public policy and published over sixty articles and essays. A frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and The Ottawa Citizen, Lang’s writings have also appeared in The Montreal Gazette, The Calgary Herald, The Edmonton Journal, The Vancouver Sun, The Windsor Star, The Leader Post, Policy Options, e-Merge, The Walrus, The Mark News, iPolitics and The Hill Times. In 2008 his book The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (co-authored with Janice Stein) won the Writer’s Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for a book of outstanding literary merit that enlarges understanding of contemporary Canadian political and social issues. The Unexpected War was also short-listed for the 2008 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy, was named one of the Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of the year, and was made into a documentary film for Global Television News.
Educated at University of Western Ontario (B.A., M.A.), Queen’s University (M.P.A.) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc.), where he studied as a Chevening Scholar, Lang lives in Ottawa with his wife Camielle Edwards Lang and their two children Leah and Joshua.
